Facebook for iPhone Actually Works

Last night opened up the App Store on my iPhone, curious to see what new apps have been released, and got the usual badge saying that there updates for my apps.

I tapped the button and instead of looking at what apps actually got updates and what each one entailed, I just hit update all and let the iPhone do it’s work. As I scrolled through the pages of apps I saw that Facebook was getting updated.

About effing time! Maybe the app will actually work correctly.

I opened up the app and found that status updates were actually posting real times! I’ve been so used to translating that 4 hours ago on the Facebook iPhone app was actually a few minutes ago to an hour ago. This may be a trivial thing for some, but for me this was amazing. That was one of the few things that just, “grinded my gears,” as Peter Griffin would say.

Also, I haven’t experienced a crash or glitch yet with any of the screens – I just opened the Knock on Wood App so I hope that helps. What would frequently happen on my phone was after browsing for a short time on a profile page, or any page really, I would start to see nothing but blank spaces in each table. I would then have to restart the app and browse from there. Again, this may seem like a minor inconvenience to you, but as heavily as I use Facebook (which can add up to about 30-40 launches a day) you can see where it would become a huge annoyance.

Commenting also seems to have been fixed or improved! I haven’t had any errors yet with commenting on wall posts like I used to have. I remember typing long, thoughtful comments, only to find that there “was an error while posting my comment” and I would lose all the work that I just did. The fun part was attempting to remember and retype the whole thing.

So far so good Facebook, good job!

If you haven’t updated yet, run iTunes and check for updates or run the App Store on the iPhone.

Which also reminds me… where in the world is that darn Push Notification System? It would be nice of these updates would PUSH NOTIFY us.

Just a thought Apple.

Change Will Come

iGerardFTW is no longer an Apple-centric blog.

Wow, that was easier to type than I thought.

iGerardFTW is now just a blog about everything I like. Not just Apple and tech, but really whatever I want. I’ve gotta admit, the change really makes it easier to post things on here now.

I guess that’s really all. I just thought you should know that.

Some Housekeeping

I’ve been looking at my stats and it looks like I haven’t posted a new entry since November.

To all of my readers: I am sorry. Life is just empty without me isn’t it?

In all seriousness, I’m dusting off the blog and plan on putting it back into full swing. Since November I’ve been swamped with, what seemed like, a neverending cycle of problems. Life seems to be settling down (knock on wood) so I’ll be paying more attention to the blog. Actually, it’s been so long that I the WordPress admin page is all new to me! (If you didn’t know, I use the web-based version of WordPress. I’m entirely too lazy to put it on a server of my own )

Although I haven’t been talking on here much, I have been tweeting my mouth off on teh Twitter, which I thought compensated for my negelect of the blog. I’ve also been podcasting with Paul Salzman and Sam Crawford on VexedTech. We’re already on episode 4 and have a lot of interviews from MacWorld! We’re even going to have a special guest on the show in a week or so!

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Again, thanks to everyone who reads my blog/twitter/whatever. Without you guys, this stuff would really be meaningless!

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